Video: Tour L.A.'s Metro Central Maintenance Facility

Take a tour of Metro's Central Maintenance Facility in downtown L.A. Complete with "dyno" transmission simulator machines, part-fetching robots and more.

Jul 10, 2018

Take a tour of Metro's Central Maintenance Facility in downtown L.A. Complete with "dyno" transmission simulator machines, part-fetching robots and more.

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